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Things are bad but at least we have soft clothes...
"Rather than being of a permanent nature, ruffs were remade at every wash, and the highly skilled process of starching, ironing and pinning of linen required to create one ruff could take up to five hours at every laundering".
"Rather than being of a permanent nature, ruffs were remade at every wash, and the highly skilled process of starching, ironing and pinning of linen required to create one ruff could take up to five hours at every laundering".
In 1573, the apprentices of Dublin were limited to wearing a ruff no greater than 1yd in length.
No room for all the ruffs in the workshops
No room for all the ruffs in the workshops
Starch was attacked in England by militant Protestants who saw its use simultaneously as ‘foreign, effeminating and demonic’,
Please enjoy the fabulous Domhnall O Sullivan Beare sporting a big ruff and dressed like a Spaniard because he wasn't too keen on the English at the time
Clues as to why here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Cam_O%27Sullivan_Beare
Clues as to why here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Cam_O%27Sullivan_Beare
The apprentices in Dublin have been at it again -
In 1573 regulations made to forbid them from wearing bombast which was a cotton wool used as padding or stuffing for clothes. They were shoving it into their breeches to, y'know, make them look, well, hung I suppose.
In 1573 regulations made to forbid them from wearing bombast which was a cotton wool used as padding or stuffing for clothes. They were shoving it into their breeches to, y'know, make them look, well, hung I suppose.
Between that and the huge ruffs (see earlier tweet) those boys must have been a sight to be seen in sixteenth century Dublin. Either top or bottom would put your eye out
Although other cities may have put on a good show too when it came to padding your clothes to look like you had a massive penis
In 1594/5, 82lb of bombast imported by Limerick and Cork merchants. Other materials such as wool or hair may also have been used as padding
Hair!
In 1594/5, 82lb of bombast imported by Limerick and Cork merchants. Other materials such as wool or hair may also have been used as padding
Hair!
It's hard to figure out if this quote from Barnabe Rich about 16thC Irishmen applies to me or my ancestors after this mad year:
‘the uncivil sort so disfigure themselves with their glibs, their trowse and their misshapen attire’.
glibs = Irish hairdo http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/08/16th-century-irish-hipsters/
‘the uncivil sort so disfigure themselves with their glibs, their trowse and their misshapen attire’.
glibs = Irish hairdo http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/08/16th-century-irish-hipsters/
See also this quote from Luke Gernon (1620) who noted that Irish men's ‘trowse’ were worn in such a way that "the beholder may still suspecte it to be falling from his arse".
All these wonderful facts are contained in Susan Flavin's book - Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland : Saffron, Stockings and Silk which is extreely interesting and full of amazing insights.
I continue to be annoyed at this
A Spanish Armada captain wrote in 1588 that the women he met in the mountains of Sligo and Donegal were ‘very beautiful, but badly dressed".
You're up a mountain not at the fucking court of Philip II now dickhead.
A Spanish Armada captain wrote in 1588 that the women he met in the mountains of Sligo and Donegal were ‘very beautiful, but badly dressed".
You're up a mountain not at the fucking court of Philip II now dickhead.
Proof that not only English observers liked to chat shit about the Irish...
noted
noted
